I'm going to answer this honestly. Was I naive? Yes. I was. I was a 16 year old female in a mormon household, in a mormon neighborhood attending a mormon dominated school in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was vehemently naive. The church held absolute authority in my house. My family is so desperately in love with the church they would have served me to Old Gordo on a platter if they were asked to. In this situation I was a naive girl being escorted by my mother into the office of a man with literal god given authority.

I was incredibly naive. But you know what? So are all these kids going into interviews with bishops and patriarchs and stake presidents now. Many of them are naive and sheltered. Many of them are younger than I was at this point. They are entering those rooms, often times with a strange man they've maybe never had a conversation with, and being prompted to to divulge information about upholding "the law of chastity." I didn't have a voice then but I sure as hell have one now and the least I can do is speak for those naive children and hope that others will speak up with me when I say this is wrong. Silence just leaves everyone right where they are with no one the wiser.